Album Facts
Numero - Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (House of Grass) Vinyl LP
Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, healthy dollop of conga drum
Price $65.00
Format 3xLP + Book
Label Numero
UPC 825764106580
Color House of Grass
Year 2018
Condition
Album Facts
Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, healthy dollop of conga drum
Price $65.00
Format 3xLP + Book
Label Numero
UPC 825764106580
Color House of Grass
Year 2018
Condition
It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results. Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. Be it mosquito-bitten torch singers, landlocked surf quartets, fad-chasing jazz combos, mad genius band leaders, D-list actors, or a middle aged loner programming bird calls into a Hammond, Exotica was always more concerned with what geography might sound like over who was conducting. Captured across three albums are 48 (54 on the CD) curious examples of the short-lived genre's reach, each summoning their own sonic visions of Shangri La, bringing their versions of the Pacific, Africa, and the Orient to the hinterlands of America. Technicolor Paradise is where one makes it, after all.
